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I have to say Dune. Hands down.

ALSO.

I haven't discussed this before now, but I actually have a resolution this December. I usually don't bother with them, but I want to try to make an entry every day.

Warning you all this may result in more picture posts, random 'what-articles-I'm-reading' posts, and more in the vein of fluff over serious context, but...I am going to TRY!

Here's to the experiment working!

Also, Happy New Year for those who celebrate!

By way of EdelStore:

Merry Christmas Happy New Year 2022! from EdelStore Mall

Afrikaans - Geseknde Kersfees en 'n gelukkige nuwe jaar!
Albanian - Gézuar Krishlindjet Vitin e Ri!
Amharic - Melkam Yelidet Beaal!
Arabic - I'D Miilad Said ous Sana Saida!
Aramaic - Edo bri'cho o rish d'shato brich'to!
Armenian - Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand!
Aromunian - Crãciunu hãriosu shi unu anu nãu, bunu!
Azeri - Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun!
Bahasa Malaysia - Selamat Hari Natal
Basque - Zorionak eta Urte Berri On!
Belorussian - Winshuyu sa Svyatkami i z Novym godam!
Bengali - Shuvo Baro Din - Shuvo Nabo Barsho!
Bicolano - Maugmang Capascuhan asin Masaganang Ba gong Taon!
Bohemian - Vesele Vanoce!
Brazilien - Boas Festas e Feliz Ano Novo!
Breton - Nedeleg laouen na bloav ezh mat!
Bulgarien - Vesela Koleda i chestita nova godina!
Catalan - Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou!
Cantonese - Seng Dan Fai Lok, Sang Nian Fai Lok!
Cebuano - Malipayong Pasko ug Bulahang Bagong Tuig!
Chinese - Shen tan jie kuai le. Hsin Nien Kuaile!
Chinese (Cantonese) - Sing Dan Fae Lok. Gung Hai Fat Choi!
Chinese (Mandarin) - Shen Dan Kuai Le Xin Nian Yu Kuai!
Choctaw - Yukpa, Nitak Hollo Chito!
Cornish - Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth!
Corsican - Bon Natale e Bon capu d' annu!
Cree - Mitho Makosi Kesikansi!
Creek - Afvcke Nettvcakorakko!
Croatian - Sretan Bozic!
Czech - Stastne a vesele vanoce a stastny novy rok!
Dänisch - Glaedelig Jul og godt nyter!
Duri - Christmas-e- Shoma Mobarak!
Dutch - Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuw Jaar!
(also) Dutch - Prettige kerstdagen en een gelukkig nieuw jaar!
Egyptian - Colo sana wintom tiebeen !
English - Merry Christmas Happy New Year !
Eskimo (Inupik) - Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo!
Esperanto - Felican Kristnaskon kaj Bonan Novjaron!
Estonian - Rõõmusaid jõulupühi ja head uut aastat!
Euskera - Zorionak eta Urte Berri On !
Faeroese - Gledhilig jol og eydnurikt nyggjar!
Farsi - Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad!
Filipinos - Maligayang Pasko!
Finnish - Hyvää joulua ja onnellista uutta vuotta!
Flemish - Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar!
French - Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année!
Frisian - Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier!
Friulian - Bon Nadâl e Bon An Gnûf!
Gaelic - Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ur!
Scots Gaelic - Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath yr!
Galician - Bon Nadal e Bo Ani Novo!
German - Frohe Weihnachten und ein glückliches Neues Jahr!
Greek - Hronia polla ke eftihismenos o kenourios hronos!
Greenlandic - Juullimi Ukiortaassamilu Pilluarit!
Hausa - Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!
Hawaian - Mele Kalikimaka ame Hauoli Makahiki Hou!
Hebrew - Mo'adim Lesimkha. Shana Tova!
Hindi - Shub Naya Baras!
Hungarian - Kellemes karacsonyi uennepeket es boldog ujevet!
Iban - Selamat Ari Krismas enggau Taun Baru!
Icelandic - Gledhileg jsl og farsflt komandi ar!
Ilocano - Naimbag a Pascua ken Naragsac nga Baro nga Tawen!
Indonesian - Selamat Hari Natal dan Selamat Tahun Baru!
Iraqi - Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah!
Irish - Nollaig Shona duit!
Irish Gaelic - Nollaig faoi shean agus faoi shonas duit agus bliain nua faoi mhaise dhuit!
Italian - Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo!
Japanese - Meri Kurisumasu soshite Akemashite Omedeto!
Jèrriais - Bouan Noué et Bouanne Année!
Kadazan - Kotobian Tadau Do Krimas om Toun Vagu!
Karelian - Rastawanke Sinun, Uvven Vuvenke Sinun !
Korean - Sung Tan Chuk Ha!
Krio - Appi Krismes en Appi Niu Yaa!
Kurdish - Seva piroz sahibe u sersala te piroz be!
Ladin - Bon Nadel y Bon Ann Nuef!
Lappic - Buorit Juovllat ja Buorre Oddajahki!
Latin - Natale hilare et Annum Faustum!
Latvian - Priecigus Ziemsvetkus un Laimigu Jaungadu!
Lausitzian - Wjesole hody a strowe nowe leto!
Lithuanian - Linksmu Kaledu! Maltese - Nixtieklek Milied tajjeb u is-sena t-tabja!
Livian - Riiemlizi Talspividi ja pagin vonno udaigastos!
Low Saxon - Heughliche Winachten un 'n moi Nijaar!
Luxemburgish - Schéi Krëschtdeeg an e Schéint Néi Joer!
Macedonian - Streken Bozhik!
Malay - Selamat Hari Natal dan Tahun Baru!
Malayalam - Puthuvalsara Aashamsakal!
Maltese - Nixtieklek Milied tajjeb u is-sena t-tabja!
Mandarin - Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan!
Manx - Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa!
Maori - Meri Kirihimete!
Marathi - Shub Naya Varsh!
Modern Greek - Kala Christougenna kai evtichismenos o kainourios chronos!
Mongolian - Zul saryn bolon shine ony mend devshuulye!
Monogasque - Festusu Natale e Bona ana noeva !
Norwegian - God Jul Og Godt Nytt Aar!
Occitan - Polit nadal e bona annada!
Oriya - Sukhamaya christmass ebang khusibhara naba barsa!
Pampamgo - Malugud Pascu at saca Masayang Bayung Banua!
Papiamento - Bon Pasco y un Feliz Aña Nobo!
Papua New Guinea - Bikpela hamamas blong dispela Krismas na Nupela yia i go long yu!
Pashto - De Christmas akhtar de bakhtawar au newai kal de mubarak sha!
Pennsylvania German - En frehlicher Grischtdaag un en hallich Nei Yaahr!
Polish - Vesowe Boze Narodzenie!
(also) Polish - Wesolych Swiat i Szczesliwego Nowego Roku!
Portuguese - Boas Festas e um feliz Ano Novo!
Punjabi - Nave sal di mubaraka!
Pushto - Christmas Aao Ne-way Kaal Mo Mobarak Sha!
Raeto-Ramance - Bella Festas da zNadal ed in Ventiravel Onn Nov!
Rapa-Nui - Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi. Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua!
Rhetian - Bellas festas da nadal e bun onn!
Romanche - Legreivlas fiastas da Nadal e bien niev onn!
Romani - Bachtalo krecunu Thaj Bachtalo Nevo Bers!
Romanian - Craciun fericit si un an nou fericit!
Russian - S nastupaiushchim Novym godom i s Rozhdestvom Khristovym!
Romanche (Sursilvan dialect) - Legreivlas fiastas da Nadal e bien niev onn!
Sambal - Maligayang Pasko at Masayang Ba-yon Taon!
Sami - Buorrit Juovllat!
Samoan - La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou!
Sardian - Felize Nadale e Bonu Cabuannu!
Sardinian - Bonu nadale e prosperu annu nou!
Scots Gaelic - Nollaig chridheil huibh!
Serbian - Hristos se rodi!
Sicilian - Bon Natali e Prosperu Annu Novu !
Singhalese - Subha nath thalak Vewa. Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa!
Slovakian - Sretan Bozic or Vesele vianoce!
Slovak - Vesele Vianoce i na zdravie v novom roku!
Slovene - Vesele bozicne praznike in srecno novo leto!
Slovenian - Vesele bozicne praznike in srecno novo leto!
Sorbian - Wjesole hody a strowe Nowe leto!
Spanish - Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo (gilt für alle lateinamerikanischen spanischsprachigen Länder)! (applies to all Latin American Spanish speaking countries, so sayeth Google)
Sudanese - Wilujeng Natal Sareng Warsa Enggal!
Surigaonon - Malipayon na pasko sanan bag-on tuig!
Swahili - ºKrismas Njema Na Heri Za Mwaka Mpyaº !
Swedish - God Jul Och Ett Gott Nytt Ar!
Tagalog - Maligayang Pasko at Manigong Bagong Taon!
Tamil - Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal!
Thai - Suk san wan Christmas!
Thai - Suk san wan pee mai - Happy New Year!
Tok Pisin - Meri Krismas Hepi Nu Yia!
Tongan - Kilisimasi Fiefia Ta'u fo'ou monu ia!
Trukeese (Micronesian) - Neekiriisimas annim oo iyer seefe feyiyeech!
Trukeese - Neekirissimas annim oo iyer seefe feyiyeech!
Tswana - Keresemose o monate le masego a ngwaga o montsha!
Turkish - Noeliniz kutlu olsun ve yeni yilinis kutlu olsun!
Turkish - Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun!
Ukrainian - Srozhdestvom Kristovym!
Ukrainan - Z novym rokom i s rizdvom Hrystovym!
Ukrainan - Khrystos Rodevsia!
Urdu - Naya Saal Mubarak Ho!
Vepsi - Rastvoidenke i Udenke Vodenke!
Vietnamese - Chuc mung nam moi va Giang Sinh vui ve!
Waray - Maupay nga Pasko ngan Mainuswagon nga Bago nga Tuig!
Welsh - Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Da!
Xhosa - Siniqwenelela Ikrisimesi EmnandI Nonyaka Omtsha Ozele Iintsikelelo Namathamsanqa!
Yayeya - Krisema!
Yiddish - Gute Vaynakhtn un a Gut Nay Yor!
Yoruba - E ku odun, e ku iye'dun!
Zulu - Sinifesela Ukhisimusi Omuhle Nonyaka Omusha Onempumelelo!

Obviously, there are more languages on the planet, but this is a good start!

Merry all the things!

So. I got another email that should have been caught by the spam filter...

Hi there,

...Hi there.

My name is [Lxxxx], I am the main editor at Snoozy Monk ([leaving the name in but not the webpage]).

Okay...and your site has what to do with mine?

While browsing your site, I noticed you have an amazing article from this page:

"Amazing". Really?

http://razorblade-cookies.blogspot.com/2020/11/reputable-profile-my-left-foot.html

And this, Constant Reader, is where the Editrix felt her head tilt nearly all the way off. Because that "article" has NOTHING to do with insomnia. It's all taking on yet another spam letter, prefaced by a quote on D/s I thought relevant at the time.

And it's over a year old!

My team actually just published a comprehensive article on "Everything You Need To Know About Insomnia" which I think your visitors would truly appreciate and add value to your awesome article.

I doubt that, but...

You can check it out here: https://www.snoozymonk.com/blogs/news/everything-you-need-to-know-about-insomnia

And this one I did leave in, even though it is clearly intended as spamvertising. I skimmed it, and...I mean, it does contain information that might help, but it's also the same information a five-minute search of Google would turn up. I am deeply confused.

If you were willing to add our link to that page, I would be more than happy to share it to my social followers to help you gain some visibility in exchange.

Not a chance in anything.

Let me know what you think and thank you for your consideration!

I plan to let you know by clicking the 'remove my name from your list' button.

Cheers,

Sure, merry whatever...

Lxxxx Mxxxx

Right. Couldn't even wait until the year rolled around to 2022 to hit me with "Hi, I got your name from a random bot search, you might be gullible enough to pimp us!". Honestly.

It has been a long, strange year.

Technically, it's past Yule, technically, it's the 25th, but since we just filled and hung stockings today, I think I'm allowed.

I think, as much as I can say there were lows, and some of them staggering lows, overall, I'm not displeased with how the year is ending. We've had successes, and I think some good ones, in RL and SL. We haven't gotten COVID. We're still alive and rattling around. We may have a permanent low bar set at this point, but I'm far from it.

So here's hoping you are, too, and that things are at least tolerable, if not stellar. Now is the time of sleeping; the last of the harvest is in, the bulk of the gatherings to dispense the remaining fresh foods are past; now we seek shelter, and dress warm, and wait for spring.

And good health and happiness to us all in the year to come. Merry Yule.


(No, I don't know why all the picture links are broken. Again. I'll work on it, but this is like the fifth time in as many months, I may take up the offer of a friend for him to host the blog under his Wordpress package...which Blogger, well, isn't, but we do what we must.)

STATIC has really outdone themselves with this one. I'm showing off the pink--and one other later--but it comes with a hud for seven total glistening melted-candy effects (pink, red, yellow, mint, blue, purple, and white as noted on their Flicker. To note: while the item is mesh, you need to wear a BOM skin, because you *need* to use their alpha--the alpha cuts of most commercial bodies will not do.



It's even...is "better" the right word?...in person, with the light picking up glistening liquidity on the candy sections, and while the broken exposed rib moves a little less than naturally, honestly, this is the best thing I've seen since that one gore and guts attachment I found that was only fitted for male bodies. (Sorry, don't remember who made it, wish I did, but it was at We <3 RP several months ago.)



And here's the..."not so candy guts" one:



This one comes rigged for Belleza Freya and Jake bodies. Reborn, Legacy female and Legacy male, and Maitreya. It runs L$396 at the Dreadborne Township Forest of Dead Toys holiday event. I have no idea when the event closes, as I found it sidewise (tracking something I wanted to own at the Vae Victis booth at Shop n' Hop, and finding it led to Quills and Curiosities, which gave me the landmark for the event.

More information can be found on Second Life Syndicate's site, and found out when it's over! It runs until the 31st. (There's a hunt too, but they've been quite devious with gift locations!).

Cue my great surprise and shock. See the shock? This is my shocked face. How shocking.



From the chat that tipped me to this:

[12:07 AM] Uxxxx: and what store is this?
[12:09 AM] Kxxxxx: A store that sells strippable mod outfits. Xtra Ordinari
[12:13 AM] Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx: Mod is not verified, only claimed on market
[12:20 AM] Uxxxx: bit annoying that they don't seem to understand the difference between stylized and "child"
[12:27 AM] Bxxxxx: Yeah, and I bet they don't understand the difference between 'child avatar' and 'petite adult' either
[12:29 AM] Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx: Prolly not
[12:29 AM] Uxxxx: prol- what [Xxxxx] said
[12:29 AM] Kxxxxx: They were likely mod, at least, the outfit the model was wearing one
[02:11 AM] Yxxxxx: Idiots. Absolute imbeciles. But also If those are supposed to be examples up there, wouldn't they literally be putting the exact thing they're claiming to be cp up as pictures in their store? Conflicted though because it sounds like they make things well, just their take on this issue is complete bollocks.

That's a great point.

But also, note the text of the ban: "underage", "Lolita-like", "baby-faced", "anime", "furry" characters, then only the qualifiers for "kid" or "teenlike" figures, dressed to "stimulate and tease in a sexual way".

And as far as the picture that announces this ban? To me, only the last avatar would come anywhere close to 'underage', and then the full-body latex would tell me otherwise. I just don't get it.